Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 48

Said the second wife, "Since she is the first one you had it is better for you to stick to her, and I will go away."

Who acts: second wife, mother, you, first one · What happens: say, be, have, stick, go away · To what, where: first one, downcast, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second wife, mother, you, first one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wife	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 wife	amod
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 better	punct
7	Since	since	SCONJ	_	12 one	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 better	nsubj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	obj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 better	cop
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Said	parataxis
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 stick	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 stick	nsubj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 stick	mark
21	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 better	csubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stick	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Said	ccomp
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the second wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	mother	the first one			tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	you	downcast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	the first one			good property	tree rules
5	stick in a quote	to-infinitive	you		mother		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Patient
6	go away in a quote	future	the second wife = wife			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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